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June 06, 2022, 10:40:01 PM
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12 words. Electrum. (or similar wallet) Offline. Air gapped. Write it down. Write down the correct order too or make it obvious what the order is. Much better and simpler and easier than anything you can try to think of. After being in this space for a long enough time, you will come to the same conclusion. These 12 words (or up to 24), are the equivalent of a thousand addresses and a thousand private keys. There is no real limit, so you can see it is good for a million addresses.

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June 07, 2022, 06:22:26 AM
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What I found interesting is the possibility to hide a key directly in a text and not only some word from a seed... by the way thank you all for suggestions.

As we may discuss how practical and reliable this solution is, I must say it looks fancy. You know, "The Da Vinci Code" style. There is always an alternative to steel plate with your 12/24 words engraved ;-)
The main problem for that method is like I said before, the big chance of not being able to repeat the phrase. Italian stamps? OK, but if you lose them, it may be difficult to restore the content. Think about alternative approach - take book X, edition Y from year Z, take page P and first 50 characters, including spaces. IF you lose your book, you will at least know how to find the exact copy.
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June 08, 2022, 03:59:41 AM
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I am trying to realize an address in that way just to understand how it works the generation of a private key from a text.
Anyway I am also trying to realize an address that could be managed with this kind of process...
I find this way for generating key pretty interesting and it's a good way to hide a private key practically everywhere!


Yeah, it's interesting, but that's where its usefulness stops. You literally do not want to generate private keys from text anymore because i) if you use pre-packaged tools to do it, they use an algorithm is known by all hackers and they are running programs to brute force private keys with random text ii) if you do this manually with a different algorithm you could forget it, if you also lose your private key.

Don't underestimate the forgetfulness of man. it just struck me again with a few passwords to some services. (I was locked out of LastPass during that time).

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June 11, 2022, 12:47:21 PM
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Yeah, it's interesting, but that's where its usefulness stops. You literally do not want to generate private keys from text anymore because i) if you use pre-packaged tools to do it, they use an algorithm is known by all hackers and they are running programs to brute force private keys with random text ii) if you do this manually with a different algorithm you could forget it, if you also lose your private key.

Don't underestimate the forgetfulness of man. it just struck me again with a few passwords to some services. (I was locked out of LastPass during that time).


Try to guess a private key with brute force it's like impossible if I'll take in account a random text with 500+ characters/special ones/spaces...
Of course is not easy and it's like a waste of time (versus create a private key in the classic manner) since I can use other methods but what I think it's interesting it's the chance to hide a private key inside a text.

About the method to create this wallet, all steps could be easily saved everywhere... I was searching also a way to do everything just from "command line" and not using tools or other stuffs online.

BTW thank you all for you inputs and clarifications, much appreciated Smiley

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